It turns out that a lot of people haven't been paying attention. Over the weekend, a story about how Microsoft is earning more from HTC's Android devices than from its own Windows Phone 7 sales spread all across the web, with surprised reactions everywhere. Anyone who has been paying attention to Microsoft's recent patent trolling regarding Android could've seen this coming.

If it's perfectly legal why not do it? I mean, if they make good money from their current product AND they can make good money from licensing Android that seems like a big win for Microsoft shareholders (and, you know, they need all the wins they can get).